[yasm-announce] ANNC: Yasm 0.4.0 (Milestone 4)

[Peter Johnson]

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Yasm 0.4.0, the fourth Yasm
development milestone.  New features in this milestone include:

  - ELF AMD64 and 32-bit shared object support (using the NASM notation
"WRT ..got", etc).
  - STABS debugging format (enable with "-g stabs").
  - NASM-like list format.
  - XDF object format (64-bit basic format, similar in spirit to NASM's 
RDF).
  - Dozens of bugfixes in x86 and AMD64 support.
  - Numerous cross-platform build fixes.
  - No perl dependencies for standard build.
  - New man pages: yasm(1) and yasm_arch(7).

Known issues:

  - Changing the machine to "amd64" does not automatically default to bits 
64 mode; specify BITS 64 in the assembly source as a workaround.

Release Notes for 0.4.0:

http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/wiki/Release0.4.0

Downloads from the Yasm website (which has been significantly upgraded
with a Wiki, timeline, and integrated ticket system and source browser)
include .tar.gz source and Win32, CygWin, and DOS executables:

http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/wiki/Download

Please download, test, and tinker, and most importantly, send comments and
bug reports!  Thanks to all those who submitted bug reports for this
release (many AMD64 bugfixes).  More developers are welcome to join us as
well.

Thanks,
Peter Johnson and the other Yasm developers
<peter at tortall.net>

Yasm development discussion is at <yasm-devel at tortall.net>.